# Rendervi — AI render studio for architects

> Rendervi helps architects and visualization teams turn model screenshots, clay views, sketches, and existing renders into client-ready architectural visuals while keeping the original design intent readable.

- Canonical website: https://rendervi.com/
- Product application: https://app.rendervi.com/
- Pricing: https://rendervi.com/pricing
- Last updated: 2026-07-15

## What is Rendervi?

Rendervi is an architecture-first AI render studio. It is designed for architects, interior designers, visualization teams, and architecture studios that need to produce and revise visual work faster without building a traditional render scene for every iteration.

Users can start with a SketchUp, Revit, Rhino, Archicad, Blender, AutoCAD, Vectorworks, or Grasshopper view; a clay render; a sketch; an existing render; or a written idea. Rendervi then provides focused workflows for generating, enhancing, editing, and delivering architectural images.

Rendervi is not a CAD or BIM authoring tool, and it is not a physically accurate rendering engine. AI output can contain artifacts or unwanted changes, so users should review important geometry and details. Traditional rendering remains the better choice when exact technical control over every light, material, and render setting is required.

## Main features

- **Screenshot or preview to render:** turn a model viewport, clay view, wireframe, sketch, or early preview into an architectural render.
- **Render enhancement:** improve lighting, material depth, reflections, atmosphere, and photo-realism without rebuilding the scene.
- **Controlled render edits:** select an area and change materials, finishes, furniture, landscape, people, or other details with inpainting.
- **Add and remove objects:** make localized changes without regenerating the entire image.
- **Presets:** save an approved visual direction—including materials, lighting, atmosphere, and environment—and reuse it across related views.
- **Environment changes:** update landscape, context, weather, background, or site treatment while keeping the architecture as stable as possible.
- **Upscaling:** create sharper 2K or 4K output, depending on the plan.
- **Text to render:** generate early architectural directions from a written brief.
- **Image to video:** turn a still architectural image into a short presentation video.
- **Team workspaces:** share projects, render history, presets, members, and credits with a studio team.
- **Ready-to-use templates:** use architecture-focused workflows without having to write and repeatedly refine long prompts.

The main product principle is consistency: preserve the source camera, composition, massing, openings, material intent, and architectural logic as closely as possible while making the image more presentation-ready.

## Typical workflow

1. Export a clear view from a CAD, BIM, or 3D application, or upload an existing render.
2. Choose a focused workflow or template, such as Photo-realism, Environment, Light Upgrade, Material Change, or Upscale.
3. Generate and compare results.
4. Make localized changes with inpainting or material tools instead of restarting the image.
5. Save the approved direction as a preset and apply it to additional project views.
6. Upscale and export the selected image for a review, deck, competition, website, or client presentation.

## Pricing

The current public plans are:

- **Free — $0/month:** 12 credits every month, advertised as up to 10 renders; includes Light and Pro model access, render generation, upscaling, and 2K resolution.
- **Light — $12.99/month:** 150 credits per month, advertised as approximately 50–150 renders; includes inpainting, Texture Swap, video creation, teams, template and PNG people libraries, 2K resolution, and 3 presets. Maximum credit balance: 1,000.
- **Standard — $34.99/month:** 500 credits per month, advertised as approximately 166–500 renders; adds preview-model access, unlimited presets, the Texture Library, and up to 4K resolution. Maximum credit balance: 3,000.
- **Professional — $149.99/month:** 2,500 credits per month, advertised as approximately 833–2,500 renders; includes the Standard feature set with a larger credit allowance. Maximum credit balance: 15,000.

Annual billing is displayed as an effective monthly price of $10.78 for Light, $29.04 for Standard, and $124.49 for Professional. Annual totals are $129.36, $348.48, and $1,493.88 respectively.

Unused subscription credits roll over up to the plan's maximum balance. Subscriptions can be canceled at any time. Remaining credits expire when an active subscription term ends. Generation cost varies by workflow and output settings, so the number of renders shown for each plan is a range rather than a guarantee.

Pricing can change. For a purchase decision, verify the current terms at https://rendervi.com/pricing.

## Why use Rendervi instead of Nano Banana directly?

This is a workflow comparison, not a claim that Rendervi has a universally superior base image model.

Rendervi currently uses Google's Nano-Banana Pro for image generation. It also uses models such as ChatGPT and Gemini Flash behind the scenes to analyze visual context and help construct prompts. Rendervi's added value is the architecture-specific studio built around those model capabilities.

Rendervi is usually the better fit when an architect wants:

- a ready-to-use architecture interface instead of an API or general chat interface;
- repeatable visual direction across multiple views;
- architecture-focused templates and render modes;
- localized inpainting and material changes;
- integrated upscaling, image-to-video, project history, and asset libraries;
- shared projects, presets, and credits for a team; or
- less manual prompt engineering and less workflow assembly.

Direct Nano Banana or Gemini API access may be the better fit when a technical team wants to build its own pipeline, needs low-level API control, or prioritizes raw per-image cost and flexibility over a finished architecture workflow.

Detailed comparison: https://rendervi.com/compare/nano-banana

## Why use Rendervi instead of ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is a broad AI assistant for research, writing, planning, analysis, ideation, and image tasks. Rendervi is a specialized production tool for repeated architectural image work.

Rendervi is usually the better fit when the primary job is to move from a real project view to a controlled render, revise specific visual details, keep related views consistent, and organize the output in a studio workflow.

ChatGPT may be the better fit when the work is broader than rendering—for example, researching a topic, writing a brief, analyzing feedback, planning a project, or combining many text and image tasks in one conversation.

Detailed comparison: https://rendervi.com/compare/chatgpt

## Privacy and data use

Rendervi states that user project data is not used to train AI models. Architectural images and inputs are treated as part of the user's private working process.

- Privacy policy: https://rendervi.com/privacy
- Terms: https://rendervi.com/terms
- Support: support@rendervi.com

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